The Debate Of Archaic And Jinti Poetry In North Song Dynasty

The debate of Jinti and the archaic poetry started from Tang dynasty. The debate of Jinti and the archaic poetry in North dynasty correlated with the innovation of poetry and prose which exist in the whole North song dynasty ,so it has more characteristic and more value. This article divides the debate of Jinti and archaic poetry into three phases according to its characteristic and Song poetry's development. The initial stage of Song dynasty inherit the poetry of latter tang and Five dynasties and written a large number of Sinti poetry. At the same time ,according to the situation of that society and gorgeous style of literature, some literati , such as Wang yuchen,Liu kai,Tian xi , set about the innovation of poetry and prose which improve the writing of archaic poetry to some extent. The stage of returning to the ancients is the high tide of the innovation of poetry and prose. Shi jie,Ou yang xiu and so on advocate ancient Chinese prose ancient ideas and criticize the Xikun style and latter tang style strongly, archaic poetry became the arm of innovation ,they let the archaic poetry exceed the Jinti poetry on quantity and quality by means of making Han yu and Li bai as the example and writing poetry as prose way. The stage of innovation is the period of great prosperity. The strongly change of policy form the debate of the new and old parties which last half century. The new and old parties initiate many prisons of words,not only influence the political fate of literati, but also change their mentality. In this background, the poets in the stage of innovation have no longer sedulously choice some poetry style as before because of some political reasons. They exert themselves to discuss the esthetical feature of poetry. The debate of archaic and Jinti poetry enter the peaceable stage of introducing the ancient style and form to the regular vers and mixing together.